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Opinion: The First Rule of Campaigning

By Bill le Breton | Mon 2nd June 2014 - 3:57 pm

We wake today to news that the Government is planning Dutch-style collective pension schemes which the minister of state for pensions,the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb, says are “some of the best in the world”. The proposed legislation will include the previously announced removal of tax rules that have prevented pensioners taking more than a quarter of their savings in a cash lump sum.

OK, there is no need for switch off. This piece is not going to be about pensions. It is about campaigning and in particular about integrated campaigning. The subject has been chosen purely at random. It is Monday. What has a Liberal Democrat minister announced today? Ah! Pensions.

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged pensions and steve webb | 31 Comments

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